by Kevin Shank | Aug 1, 2022 | 2022, 08 August, Articles & Stories, Birds, Contest
You folks knocked it out of the ballpark this time. It would have been easier to assign ten first place awards than to assign one grand prize, one first place, one second place, etc. What was I thinking when I made up the rules!? I should have just said there will be...
by G. Allen Gustafson | Aug 1, 2022 | 2022, 08 August, Birds, Contest, Hummingbirds
Female Anna’s Hummingbird. Photo © G. Allen Gustafson.
by Daniel Murray | Aug 1, 2022 | 2022, 08 August, Articles & Stories, Birds, Blackbirds, Orioles, Meadowlarks, Chickadees & Titmice, Contest, Hummingbirds, Kingfishers, Waxwings
Spring Migration Bird Contest Grand Prize It is a typical Monday morning at work in mid-May. The weather has finally dried out following the wettest April on record, and the sun is trying to peak through the clouds. I am trimming and cabling a large Bloodgood maple in...
by Isaiah Wenger, 13 | Aug 1, 2022 | 2022, 08 August, Articles & Stories, Birds, Contest, Flycatchers, Kingfishers, Owls, Warblers
Spring Migration Bird Contest Second Place Linville Creek. Photo © Dogwood Ridge. The clock read 11:30 a.m. I was curled up on the couch flipping through the latest issue of Nature Friend, when the Spring Migration Bird Contest caught my attention. Eagerly I read,...
by Karen Mast, 17 | Aug 1, 2022 | 2022, 08 August, Articles & Stories, Birds, Contest, Herons, Egrets, & Bitterns, Nightjars, Shorebirds, Sparrows, Warblers, Woodpeckers
Spring Migration Bird Contest 1st Place
by Kevin Shank | Feb 23, 2022
The spring bird migration is underway. Birders know the delight in a fallout of warbler s in their brightly-colored breeding plumage flitting here and there, looking for insects among the newly-emerging leaf canopy of the forest. And to all you non-birders, well, you...